Corn-husker.



No. 759,118. PATBNTED MAY s, 1904.

M. MATTES. 001111 HUSKER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 15. 1904.

N0 MODEL.

Patented May 3, 1904i.

lliuirnn Smarts Paritair @urina MATTHIAS MATTES, 0F IOWA CITY, IOWVA.

COFilhlmHUKEH..

SPECIFICATON forming part of Letters Patent No. 759,118, dated May 3, 1904.

Application filed January l5, 1904. Serial Nov 189,138. ilo model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Re it known that l, MATTHIAS MAT'rus, a citizen of the United States, residing at iowa City, in the county of Johnson and State of Iowa, have invented new and useful l'mljirovenients in Corn-Huskers, of which the following' is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in what may be termed corn-hnslters, more especially implements for the husking of corn by hand as contradistinguished from machines used for that purpose.

1t has for its object principally to effect the corn-husling operation readily and eifectively and to provide for'the ready adjustment of the husler as may be required for the most advantageous presentation thereof to the ears of corn, as in carrying out said corn-bushing operation.

lt consists of certain struelairal 'features as relate to the imlividual parts of the inven tion, substantially as hereinafter more fully disclosed by the following' description and specilically pointed out by the claim concluding the latter.

1n the accompanyingdrawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a plan of the same, viewed as it would appear applied to the hand or resting in the palm thereof presented upward. Fig. 2 is a detached plan View of the member or plate, placed directly next to the palm of the hand. Fig. 3 is alike view of the outer or hookeqnipped member or plate. Fig. 4L is a central longitudinal section taken through Fig. 1.

ln the practicing' of my invention I employ two plates or members 1 and 2, one, 1, being more particularly adapted for application and securing' directly to the palm of the hand, the holes shown therein being designed to aid in connecting means to said plates with that end in View. Said plate 1 is conformed, as at l, to the hand about at the base of the thumb to provide for the proper or more elfective {itting of said plate or member to the hand. The

second plate or member 2, shorter somewhat than the member or plate 1, to which it is connected or applied, as presently explained, has its inner end provided or equipped with preferably a relatively short hook or tooth 2 and a long hook or tooth 2" for engaging and detaching the husks from the ear of corn, as in performing the husking operation, the long tooth or hook being arranged adjacently to the inner edge of the hand for greater eiiiciency in effecting suoli removal of said husks. Said plate or member 2 at said inner end is preferably notched or cut away, as at 2", intermediately of the hooks or teeth 2t 2, permitting the latter to have more or less resiliency in effectingsaid husking operation. Said plate or member 2 has also a number or series of preferably arcuate or curved slots 2d 2d produced therethrough in about its longitudinal center, those. designated by 2 having their concavities presented or facing the corre.- sponding surfaces or outlines of those designated by Qh. Said slots receive nutted bolts 3, having angular Shanks passed through corresponding apertures 1l in the plate or member 1 and whose heads are let intoV countersinks around the holes made in said plate for that purpose. ly this arrangi-nnent the plate or member 2 may be adjusted or disposed in any required position necessary for changing the angle of presentation of the husliing hooks or teeth to the ear of corn as circumstances may suggest to aid the more advantageous husking of the corn. Also such adjustlnent of parts provides for accommodating' the husker to the size er capacity of the hand using' the same, as is apparent.

1t is obvious that the aforesaid arrangement may be modified by producing the slots 2121 in the plate .1 and the angular apertures 1c in the plate 2 in lieu of providing the plate 2 with the former and the plate 1 with the latter, as shown.

Latitude is allowed as to details herein, as they may be changed as circumstances suggest without departing from the spirit of my invention and the latter still be protected.

I claim In testimony WliereoiI I have signed my name A corn-huskei' having a member or plate to this speoieation 1n the presence of two subprovided with a short hook and a long hook soribing Witnesses.

at one end, and with oppoSitely-ourved Slots MATTHIAS MATTES. 5 in its longitudinal center, and a second memlVitnesses:

ber oi plate provided with nutted adjustingV- IRA CURTIS,

bolts engaging said slots. A. M. SHAFF. 

